Friday, 15 July 2011

I find the variations in the way people tackle a problem to be quite interesting. This particular problem was the channelling of road water.

Some country have a very high kerbing made of concrete slabs which are painted alternate colours. You mostly find these in the third world. A location with little rainfall such as Perth, Western Australia has a very low kerb made from continuously poured concrete. Where the annual rainfall is higher the kerb will usually be of continuously poured concrete but higher to prevent the pavement from flooding.

However many of the suburban streets in our current neighbourhood have kerbing slabs and cobblestones

I wondered whether all of this was genuine stone or actually concrete made to look like stone. After examining adjacent slabs they didn’t appear to have the same pattern. But there may be a varieties of moulds. My guess is this is all concrete. But it looks interesting, and manufacturing the gutters and kerbing in stones and slabs does make it easier to lift and re-laid.

Yes; a rather boring post and what a sad life I live if road kerbing interests me!

Tomorrow I’m off to London so life should get slightly more interesting.

This blog is about us, Tom and Jan.
After a decade of travelling from 'down-under' every two years to spend a brief few weeks having a wonderful canal holiday we decided to eliminate the travel and do it full time on retirement. In 2011 we moved to the UK and built Waiouru before spending 6 wonderful years cruising.
In 2017 we sold our lovely boat and moved back to Perth, West Australia where other adventures are on the 'bucket list'.